Button loop



R. J. HODGE Feb. 9, 1932.

BUTTON LOOP Filed Jan. 8, 1930 H D T E V N PM: E E RT J H :1 1: [3 EATT) Patented Feb. 9, 1932 UNITED STATES PATET OFFICE ROBERT J. HODGE,OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, .ASSIGNOR TO THE AllEEEICAN BUCKLE COMPANY,OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CON- NEOTICUT BUTTON LOOPApplication filed January 8, 1930. Serial No. 419,432.

This invention relates to button loops and especially to loops made froma single piece of wire and having at the base of the loop substantiallyabutting extremities relatively secured by a clip coupling.

T he objects of the invention are to provide substantially abuttingextremities of a button loop with enlargements co-operating with thestructure of the clip to movably secure the extremities therein; and toprovide a clip coupling for a button loop, the structure of which clipco-o 3erates with the enlarged terminals of the loop to movably maintainthe enlargements within the clip.

The invention consists of the novel constructions, to be hereinafterdescribed or claimed, forcarrying out the above stated objects and suchother objects as may hereinafter appear.

The character of the invention may be best understood by reference toone illustrative device embodying the invention and illustrated by theseveral figures in the accompanying drawings of which the Figure 1 is afrontelevation of a. button loop in normal condition; the Figure 2 is aside elevation thereof; the Figure 3 is a front elevation with the clipillustrated in cross-section and the loop in an expanded condition; andthe Figure l is an enlarged perspective and fragmentary view of the clipmember.

The device as illustrated by the figures of the drawings, is a buttonloop for connecting a suspended strap to a button provided by a garmentto be thereby supported, the button loop comprising a suspension loop 1.a button receiving loop 2, and a button retaining loop 3, the loopsbeing associated in axial alignment. The button loop is preferabl formedof a. single piece of resilient wire,'a middle portion of which is bentto form an elongated suspension loop 1 having the horizontal bar 4, theremaining portions of the wire cooperating'ly formed to provide theloops 2 and 3 having the intermediatecontracted portion 5. The wireextremities are provided with the enlargements 6 each of which ispreferably formed by looping the wire back upon itself to provide theelongated eye 7. The clip coupling is made of sheet metal folded overthe extremities and comprising, as best illustrated by the Figure 4-,the top portion 8 having the depression 9 and the marginal recesses 10,the side portions 11, and the overlapping flanged portions 12 and 13,each of the side portions 11 having the spaced lugs 14: struck inwardlytherefrom, the lugs 14 of one side portion 11 being in alignment Withinthe clip with its oppositely positioned lug ll ot' the other sideportion 11, the aligned lugs 14 substantially extending across the clipinterior. In folding the clip over the wire extremities, including theenlargements 6, the side wire portions of the loop 3 are enclosed withinthe recesses and the lugs 14 project into the eyes 7.

In operation, the shank 15 of a button with in the receiving loop 2, asillustrated by the Figure l, is unable to move into the retain-' ingloop 3 while the enlarged extremities 6 are substantially abutting, butwith the ap plication of sufficient force behind the shank 15 it may beurged into the contracted portion 5 which is thereby expanded, and intothe retaining loop 3, the inter-engaged lugs and eyes relatively slidingand thus providing the loop extremities with a limited freedom ofmovement within the clip coupling, the resiliency of the wireimmediately restoring the button loop to its normal contracted conditionfollowing the expansion illustrated by the Figure 3.

I claim A button loop comprising a pair of spring arms cooperatinglybent to form associated loops in axial alignment and having anintermediate normally contracted portion, the extremities of the armshaving looped enlargements substantially abutting and providingelongated eyes in relative longitudinal alignment in the plane of thebutton loop, and a clip coupling enclosing the enlargements andproviding a pair of lugs inwardly directed from opposite directions forengagement within. each eye to limit the relative movements of theenlargements within the coupling upon the expansion of the contractedportion.

ROBERT J. HODGE.

